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James D. Watson was an American molecular biologist who, along with Francis H.C. Crick, discovered the double helix structure of DNA in 1953 — a groundbreaking model that transformed the study of genetics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 for this discovery. Watson later became the director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and led the Human Genome Project, contributing to the mapping of over 3 billion base pairs of human DNA. His legacy, while marked by controversy, remains central to modern molecular biology.